* Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:06:04PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > The patch is ok with this change: The _curr-ver computation needs to be > > > > _curr-ver := $(shell cd $(srcdir) && ./build-aux/git-version-gen \ > > .tarball-version) > > > > because otherwise it won't work with a VPATH build. > > Good catch. > However, a slight correction: > > ... otherwise it won't work with an *out-of-tree* VPATH build. > > I did test, of course, just not with an out-of-tree build dir. > As is, it works fine for an in-tree VPATH build.
What is an in-tree VPATH build? I so far used "VPATH build" always as synonym for "out-of-tree build". Thanks, Ralf
